print

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To produce words or pictures on paper using a machine.

   Please print the report so we can read it on the train.

2. 2
   verb

   To write letters separately and clearly, not in joined-up handwriting.

   Print your name in capital letters at the top of the form.

3. 3
   verb

   To publish something in a book, newspaper, or magazine.

   The newspaper printed a full apology the next day.

4. 4
   noun

   Words that appear in a book, newspaper, or other printed text.

   The print is too small for me to read without my glasses.

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Simplified etymology

Print entered English in the Middle English period and, like press, can be traced back to Latin premere “to press.”

From Middle English *printen, prenten, preenten, an apheretic form of emprinten, enprinten (“to impress; imprint”) (see imprint). Compare Dutch prenten (“to imprint”), Middle Low German prenten (“to print; write”), Danish prente (“to print”), Swedish prenta (“to write German letters”). Compare also Late Old French printer, preindre (“to press”), from Latin premere (“to press”).

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